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also, "many suggest" is just one of the most weasley phrases in journalism. you can use it to say anything false. who is many? how many? what constitutes "suggest"?

many suggest that will cain drinks baby's blood

"many suggest it was designed to symbolize the reconciliation after the civil war"

just a straight up lie. it was sculpted by a Lost Cause revisionist and was commissioned by the Daughters of the Confederacy, who literally loved the KKK

Imagine a German saying they're proud of the Nazi part of their history.

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

in the eyes of dems? never.

Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia Rounding up migrants. Lists of “friendly” sheriffs. Debating political assassinations. Internal messages reveal AP3’s journey from Jan. 6 through the tumultuous lead-up to the 2024 election. One…

Leaders of the American Patriots Three Percent (AP3) militia have forged alliances with law enforcement around the US.

Internal files reveal their strategies for building these ties and where they’ve claimed success.

(Published Aug. 2024)

"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." —Omar El Akkad

The “party of small government” has just created the largest militarized police force on Earth, and a top 15 military globally. What could possibly go wrong with a secret police force that rounds up undesirables without due process of law and locks them in concentration camps???

approaching “let them eat cake” levels of madness here

bad math brought to you by artificial ignorance

I'll take it one step further: it's capitalism.

It'll always create unjust hierarchies. Corrupting democracy and politics is one of the ways it demonstrates that effect

The Iron Sheik o @the_ironsheik HULK HOGAN MAY HAVE BEEN A DUMB SON OF A BITCH IN THE RING BUT OUTSIDE THE RING HE WAS ALSO A DUMB SON OF A BITCH

i am begging for cis people to realize that this is the end goal; make existing in the public sphere fundamentally untenable for trans people such that we'll detransition/stay in the closet, or worse. it's never been about women's spaces, or the sanctity of sports, or Protecting The Youth

WSJ just published this fascist OpEd by a man who has openly advocated for the ethnic cleansing Palestinians. It reinforces the sad fact that anti-Muslim violence & bigotry is not just tolerated in America—it is celebrated.

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Superman 2025

this movie was so fuckin good man

Incredible diversion from the NYT. People aren’t concerned about Colberts career.

They’re concerned with the way it would appear he was cancelled for speaking out about trumps weaponization of the DOJ to censor dissent

To be fair, Nate Silver arriving here would mean there was at least one joke on the platform

i really liked superman

although, given the discourse, i was a little disappointed he didn't turn to the camera and say "israel is an ethno-state committing genocide." i felt like it was going to happen any second

Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide Other Epstein victims credited Giuffre with giving them the courage to speak out.

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41.

Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

more New York Times laundering deportations to its liberal audience

the implicit message is "Libs dismissed a real concern and yeah you, as an enlightened NYT reader, might not like deportations but trump does have a point"

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

ross douthat is a blight, and the fact that ezra klein calls him a "friend" and has him on his podcast frequently as a guest is one of the biggest red flags there can be

this doesn't mean that i think the west wing is worse, just that it was far far more frustrating to watch

the west wing, easily.

L&O and BB are both obviously made for conservatives or "apoliticals" whereas the west wing is explicitly targeting liberals/left leaning people with bullshit with the goal of making them feel morally superior and moderating their political goals

Harris is right on the merits about fracking Energy abundance is bigger than Pennsylvania's electoral votes

as the OG abundance grandfather matt yglesias writes:

"I would like to adjust policy to be a bit friendlier to American fossil fuel extractors."

www.slowboring.com/p/harris-is-...

it is quite literally funded by oil/gas/ai billionaires.

which is why abundance folks conveniently support things like getting rid of environmental regulations for fracking pipelines

Oh hey I got a real good answer to this

Wow these guys suck aaaaaaass

Please watch this entire series if you for some reason still think the West Wing was not a vomit stream of cowardly centrism and barely cloaked contempt for the average person. If I could backhand slap any person in the world for 10 minutes uninterrupted it would 100% be Aaron Sorkin.

YouTube video by Skip Intro The West Wing & The Rise of Neoliberalism

the final episode of The Worst Wing: The Rise of Neoliberalism

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part 3 actually!